Petronell Round Chapel
The round chapel (also called Johanneskapelle ) is a Romanesque chapel in Petronell-Carnuntum , in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . It is one of the oldest and most valuable circular buildings in Austria and one of the most important Romanesque buildings. The owners are the Abensperg and Traun families .
history
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The round chapel was built in the first half of the 12th century on a circular floor plan. It was built over the foundations of a previous building, which was probably built in the second half of the 11th century. This may have been the first parish church in Petronell-Carnuntum. The researchers do not agree on the Romanesque building from the 12th century, whether it was built around 1200 as a uniform new building or whether it was built in two phases (around 1130 and around 1230). It is believed that it was a Templar building . In the past, the chapel was used as a baptistery , i.e. as a baptistery. This is indicated by the original lack of a crypt. The current crypt was only laid out in the 18th century. Today it serves as the resting place of the mortal remains of the von Abensperg-Traun noble family .
The chapel was badly damaged in the wars against the Ottomans and the French , and the condition of the building deteriorated dramatically. The cracks in the masonry also assumed threatening proportions despite several renovations. It was only in the 1950s that the building could be restored and thus saved from deterioration.
architecture
The chapel consists of a taller round building with a curved conical roof and a lower apse with a semicircular end. It is built in Romanesque stone ashlar. A corridor is hidden in the meter-thick outer walls, which served as a defense against frequent attacks. The outer facade is structured by delicate half-column pilasters with capitals . The pilasters stand with their base in a continuous, profiled base and end in the arched frieze under the eaves. The chapel is accessed via a Romanesque step gate with four half-columns each with cube capitals . A sixteen-sided , inwardly opened gallery was built into the interior in the 16th century . In the 17th century, a false dome was built in place of the original ribbed vault, which had been demolished in 1696. The conical roof dates from around 1700. The sculptures of St. Joachim and St. Anna were made around 1700.
literature
- Peter Lindenthal: On the Way of St. James through Austria, Innsbruck 2006, 5th edition, p. 19
Web links
- Petronell round chapel in three-dimensional representation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Homepage of the municipality of Petronell-Carnuntum, accessed on January 22, 2013
- ^ Regional studies of Lower Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 16 ° 51 ′ 41.7 ″ E